Associate Professor, Department of Physics, MIT. My research is in astrophysical general relativity, focusing mostly upon gravitational wave sources and black holes. Much of my work is based on using (and often abusing) general relativistic perturbation theory. A more informative webpage describing my group's work will hopefully appear in the not-too-distant future, probably here. Things are a bit jammed up right now while I try to get some projects finished, so the group webpage isn't exactly top priority right now.

Research & Science

Group webpage. (This is presently quite rough, but will be substantially overhauled soon.)

My research papers.

A schedule of upcoming talks and travel.

Resources for women in science. Originally put together by Katharine for a class; let us know if you find it useful (or have any suggestions for improvement).

Out of date: The following links are to material that could use a substantial cleanup. Updated material will be hosted at my group server.
     Old gravitational-wave sounds; some newer ones.
     Really, really archaic stuff on gravitational waves from capture binaries.

Teaching

F07: 8.981 (special topics course in gravitational waves).

F06: Research leave at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Past MIT courses: I have taught 8.022 quite a few times (lectures S04, S05; recitation S03, F03, F05, F08).
      The lecture notes I developed can be found here.
           2006 School of Science Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
           2005 William W. Buechner Teaching Prize.

Even further back: Once upon a time, I taught freshman physics at Caltech; here are notes from that course.

Contact info

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